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Overview

User Rating:
5.1/10   150 votes
Writers:
Mortimer Braus (writer)
Sandro Continenza (writer)
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Release Date:
18 June 1960 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Adventure | Drama more
Tagline:
Jump on! Hang on! Here comes the avenging Hannibal and his crazed elephant army! more
Plot:
After making his historic crossing of the Alps with elephants transporting supplies and troops, Hannibal marches on Rome in a war of revenge... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
Good Film, good acting. more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

Victor Mature ... Hannibal
Gabriele Ferzetti ... Fabius Maximus
Rita Gam ... Sylvia
Milly Vitale ... Danila
Rik Battaglia ... Hasdrubal
Franco Silva ... Maharbal
Terence Hill ... Quintilius (as Mario Girotti)
Mirko Ellis ... Mago
Andrea Aureli ... Gajus Terentius Varro
Andrea Fantasia ... Konsul Paulus Emilius
Renzo Cesana (as Renato Cesana)
Bud Spencer ... Rutario (as Carlo Pedersoli)
Pina Bottin
Remo De Angelis
Piero Mitri
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Hannibal (USA)
Hannibal (Austria) (West Germany) [de]
Aníbal (Spain) [es]
Aníbal E Os Elefantes (Portugal) (original subtitled version) [pt]
Annibal (France) [fr]
Annivas (Greece) [el]
Hannibal (Finland) [fi]
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Runtime:
Italy:95 min | USA:103 min
Country:
Italy
Language:
Italian
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
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Company:
Liber Film more

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4 out of 9 people found the following comment useful:-
Good Film, good acting., 17 February 2005
8/10
Author: anthony-mclaughlin from United Kingdom

This film was good, it followed the series of battles from 218 to 216 BC which culminated in Hannibal's victorious, heavy defeat of the biggest ever assembled Roman Army of 80,000 (Battle of Cannae).

This film even mentions the siege of Saguntum (Rome's Ally in Spain) which brought on the second Punic War when the Carthaginian senate refused to surrender Hannibal Barca to them.

After briefly showing the events of the Battle of Trebia (December 218BC) and the battle of Lake Trasimene (June 217BC) there are political scenes involving both the Carthaginians and the Romans as Fabius Maximus tries to persuade the Roman senate not to engage Hannibal in open battle, rather skirmish and harass.

Victor Mature played Hannibal well, but the only element which was wrong with this film was that it did not appear to command the same budget available for it's production as The 300 Spartans or Spartacus (in particular had) so the battle of Cannae, Hannibal's finest hour (or hours) did not come across as the battle would have done.

The reason for this is that they would have needed to assemble AT LEAST 130,000 extras in order to portray the events at Cannae. However, they still managed to assemble a lot of extras for the battle scene, just not nearly as much as 130,000 Aside from this minor flaw, I LOVED IT.

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